Paulina Dieckhaus was born on 13 November 1864, in Essen, Essen (Oldenburg), Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany as the daughter of Bernard August Anton Dieckhaus and Johanna Zickmann. She married Josef Ellerkamp in Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 24 January 1950, in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the age of 85.
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North German: habitational name from a place so named near Diepholz in Lower Saxony.
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